Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun A female given name.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From the name of an 8th century English saint, Old English Mildþryþ, from mild ("mild"") + þryþ ("strength").

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Mildred.

Examples

  • There is something different about her in Mildred Pierce (1945), for which she won and maybe even deserved her single Oscar; something understated, felt — a premonition, perhaps, that her nasty real-life daughter would one day assault her with far worse stuff than Ann Blyth ever dished out onscreen.

    ‘I Am Joan Crawford’ 2008

  • Early in the morning, he called Mildred Dunnock, who was staying ten minutes away at the Chateau Marmont Hotel on Sunset Boulevard, and asked if she would go over to Pacific Palisades and tell the children what was happening.

    Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

  • Mildred is such a no nonsense kind of person, so practical, and yet so kind.

    Counting Blessings « Tales from the Reading Room 2008

  • There is something different about her in Mildred Pierce (1945), for which she won and maybe even deserved her single Oscar; something understated, felt — a premonition, perhaps, that her nasty real-life daughter would one day assault her with far worse stuff than Ann Blyth ever dished out onscreen.

    ‘I Am Joan Crawford’ 2008

  • There is something different about her in Mildred Pierce (1945), for which she won and maybe even deserved her single Oscar; something understated, felt — a premonition, perhaps, that her nasty real-life daughter would one day assault her with far worse stuff than Ann Blyth ever dished out onscreen.

    ‘I Am Joan Crawford’ 2008

  • Mr. Brix, who later adopted the stage name Bruce Bennett and appeared as Joan Crawford's husband in "Mildred Pierce" and as a gold prospector in "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre," died of complications of a broken hip Saturday at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center, his son, Christopher, said Tuesday.

    Archive 2007-02-25 Bill Crider 2007

  • For prime Carson, check him out in Mildred Pierce or the tasty 1943 Ida Lupino vehicle The Hard Way.

    Jack Carson: Boob for All Seasons : Scrubbles.net 2006

  • It was a "memory" play - a murder investigation - Mildred is telling the story about how she was involved with the dead guy.

    It was SOOOO Long... sidewinder 2002

  • Milly -- whom she called Mildred -- must be on her guard against relaxing into domestic dulness, when she could be so extremely clever and charming if she liked.

    The Invader A Novel

  • After I had finished the letter I called Mildred in and read it to her, mouthing the hideous words that I had never before used nor permitted in my presence without a protest.

    Madeleine An Autobiography Anonymous 1919

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.